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Gregory Humphrey: Testosterone testing for the military, how about reading tests?
The Pentagon’s new “testosterone initiative” is the kind of policy you get when a society has quietly accepted that its military is less a professional fighting force than simply the nation’s largest job-creating program for the young, the poor, and the under‑educated.

Noria Doyle: How America’s collapse of civic life turned status envy into a driving force of modern political identity
It is the emergence of a status envy ideology that shapes how Americans interpret their own lives and measure themselves against others in an environment where traditional forms of community have eroded.

Dan Knodl: If more students are graduating from UW than ever before, why do so many still need remediation?
For decades, colleges and universities across the country have offered developmental or remedial education courses to students who arrive on campus not yet prepared for college-level work.

John Imes: Clean energy is about affordability, jobs and independence
As America recognizes its 250th birthday, Wisconsin has an opportunity to shape the next chapter of its economic story.

Patricia Marchant: Victims of clergy sexual abuse still waiting for justice
Would you be satisfied if you knew the priest that violated your brother or sister, classmate, neighbor or extended family was given a pass, not reported to authorities in the criminal justice system?

Bruce Murphy: Rogers Behavioral Health getting rich while opposing Wisconsin unions
Nonprofit drives revenues by increasing caseloads, reducing quality of care, workers say.

Ben Wikler: A Wisconsin-born plan to save democracy
Excerpt from Ben Wikler’s “This Is the Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy”

Jessica McBride: Gubernatorial Chutes and Ladders, Kelda Roys cosplays a ‘chardonnay mom revolutionary,’ and Democrats need to calm down
In the wake of Sara Rodriguez’s calamitous campaign implosion, the other Democrats still running for governor embarked on a frenzied competition to steal her lane. They’re flapping around like crazed vultures.

Dave Zweifel: Don’t buy all that trash talk about ‘radical’ socialists
Social democratic policies aren’t any more extreme than those of the La Follette progressives who set the stage for Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance and regulatory reforms.

Brian Fraley: Wisconsin doesn’t need new transparency laws. It needs to codify enforcement of the ones it has.
The statutory framework is already there; we just need to make it work again.

Michael Lucas: What AI race? Someone better tell China
Not only is China light years behind on investment and physical infrastructure, they don’t appear to be interested in competing against the U.S. But maybe that’s because China is running a different race.

Bill Berry: Pick your poison? The feds do that for you
It’s not funny how this federal administration and its enablers are treating human health and the environment. But it is almost laughable when you consider the legions of seemingly health-conscious people who were so thoroughly duped and are now surprised by what was obviously going to happen.

James E. Causey: What Milwaukee’s lower crime stats don’t tell you
Too often we stay silent when it’s a son, a cousin, an uncle or a friend. Then we act surprised when another family is grieving or another neighborhood is traumatized.

Mark Belling: Hannah Dugan’s lenient sentence was the right decision
Federal Judge Lynn Adelman handled the hot-button case perfectly.

James Wigderson: The dog ate Rodriguez’s homework
Lt. Governor Sara Rodriguez, who was emerging as a possible compromise Democratic candidate for governor, just fired her campaign manager and is suddenly short of cash.

Steven Walters: How Evers ‘fixed the damn roads’
He got help from Republican legislators and federal pandemic funding.

John Torinus: Tiffany, Sinykin cross paths as Knowles-Nelson expires
With at least three-quarters of Wisconsinites heavily in favor of conservation, GOP candidates oppose “green” legislation at their own risk.

Jerry Hanson: Why does the DNR allow CAFOs to expand?
How can spreading the daily waste from nearly 14,000 dairy cows over the acreage available benefit those living in and visiting the marvelous natural resource that Door County presents?

Maria Fernanda Chavez: Planning protects against unchecked data center growth
Legislators must pass a long-term energy planning requirement and clean energy portfolio standard to prevent utilities from continuing to exploit regulatory processes.

Corrine Hendrickson: Sen. Marklein closed my business; I want to replace him
Marklein had the power to invest in childcare, in our schools, in this district. He chose not to.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ debate who will pay the political price for rising energy costs
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss which party has a better message on energy costs facing voters in the 2026 midterm election. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for July 31
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss Mandela Barnes dropping out of the Dem primary for governor, how candidates performed during Tuesday’s debate, an appeal court upholding Act 10 and more.